Beej, I should warn you that Canada's largest dachshund dog show is held in Camrose, Alberta. Calgary's Municipal Dog is the Dachshund.
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Well then it's good they stay in the cities, the wolverines would tear them apart in the country.
Calgary really is a great place to visit. The energy (pardon the pun) is remarkable and it offers so much opportunity for young, hard-working people looking to learn. I never had these kinds oppotunities, from restaurants to couriers to office work to trades, when I was growing up. Choices were very limited where/when I was raised.
The young here, even if the boom turns to bust, will have early skills and workplace learning that will carry them to success throughout life, if they are bold, curious, hard-working and capable.
Beej, my wife is from Calgary, so I have seen what you are seeing in the people. It is an amazing city. The dachshunds were prevented from going into the countryside because of jurisdictional disputes between Alberta and BC. Preferring forests and tundra, the wolverine is distributed throughout B.C. except in heavily populated areas. The also occupy Alaska, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories but are rare in the Prairies and eastward. For some reason, BC wants to keep wolverines protected.
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"Tall tales and superstitions cling to the wolverine like a sorcerer’s cloak, thickly furred. A wolverine will leap from a tree to kill a reindeer. It will shadow a trapper and break down his door to devour him. Sleeping under a wolverine skin condemns a person to endless hunger.
Naturalists who study wolverines and have seen their bared teeth and flashing claws understand the roots of these exaggerated tales. Yet this carnivore, which weighs up to 45 pounds (20 kilograms) and is the largest terrestrial member of the weasel family, would rather run up a tree or duck into a den than fight anything its size or larger.
Rodents, fish, reptiles, and birds are favorite prey, but wolverines usually prefer carrion. Gulo gulo—the glutton—is a prime scavenger who buries for later use some of the meat it tears off."
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Wolverines are now considered an endangered animal due to the destruction of their habitat and over hunting by fur traders. Ranchers also kill wolverines due to the threat they possess towards livestock. Thus, being a conservationist myself, I would never think of sending out a doxie to hunt down a group of wolverines. Doxies are plentiful in North America, but wolverines are not.
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If a wolverine was the size of a bear, it would be the strongest animal on Earth.
The wolverine's jaws are strong enough to crush bones.
Wolverines are capable of bringing down deer or caribou.
A cougar will back away if it is challenged for a carcass by a wolverine.
Wolverines are strong enough to drag an animal carcass three times their own weight for some distance.
Wolverines have been reported to drive packs of wolves from their kills.
Only the European Dachshund poses a threat to wolverines in North America. North American Dachshunds have been bred to be able to kill a wolverine, but not to attack one unprovoked.
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Beej, it is not a "failed" project. Our litter of doxie pups shall be 6 months old on Saturday. Thus, they would be old enough to hunt down and kill a full grown wolverine. However, unlike the European dachshund, which has been inbred with the "kill all wolverines/badgers" trait, North American dachshund breeders are careful not to bring about this trait. It is a regressive gene which is slowly being phased out here in North America. If you could manage to get a wolverine to stay in the same room with you while you were holding a doxie pup from our litter you would see what I mean. The pup would not budge unless the wolverine made an attack, which is highly unlikely, since most wolverines that have not inherited the "Fear the Doxie" trait have been killed off late in the 20th century.
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So, Beej, you are actually there because you and Elaine are having an affair, right? I'm on to you two!
Hope everyone's day is fantastically exciting.
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